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Ben Crane was lucky to get into the FedEx Cup playoffs as the No. 125 seed. He missed the cut last week at the Wyndham Championship, and this was the first year that no one moved into the top 125 in the final event before the...

By Joseph Neff and Mandy Locke
Anson County and its insurers paid $1.475 million to Floyd Brown, the mentally disabled man jailed in a psychiatric hospital for 14 years based on a confession that his lawyers said was fabricated by an SBI agent and two...

Starlin Castro was very happy when he learned he was batting leadoff Wednesday night for the Chicago Cubs.
"It's good for me," Castro said before the Cubs face Washington. "I'm feeling good batting first. I like batting first. The year...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Polaris Industries Inc's relaunch this month of the Indian motorcycle, a storied U.S. brand older than Harley-Davidson, has pulses racing on and off Wall Street.
But should investors in the maker of all-terrain vehicles,...

GULFPORT, Miss. -- Calling pending flood insurance increases "drastic and draconian," U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo of Gulfport met with state and local leaders to discuss ways to stem the tide of rising insurance rates that are due to kick in as...

Marg Helgenberger is returning to "CSI" next season. For one episode, at least.
One of the original cast members of the long-running CBS procedural, Helgenberger recently announced via Twitter that she was coming back for the show's 300th...

He played a creepy Keith Morrison and a forever put-upon Lindsey Buckingham. His freaky James Carville still gives us the willies, frankly. He has also portrayed Al Pacino, Vincent Price and Julian Assange, too many smarmy game show hosts to remember...

In the aftermath of George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Gov. Pat Quinn appeared on national television and declared that Illinois doesn't have a "stand your ground" law like Florida and "we don't want...

Culinary herbs are among the hottest trends in gardening. They also are popular among families who preserve fresh foods for later use.
Nearly 70 percent of home canners are growing herbs, second only to tomatoes, said Lauren Devine-Hager, a product...

It’s all about the flags at most university plant trials. True to form, ‘Tiger Eye Gold’ rudbeckia is still commanding attention. Though this showy rudbeckia, also called gloriosa daisy, was introduced in 2009, it continues to capture its share of...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- White Sox right-hander Andre Rienzo will try for his first major league win when he takes the mound against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Wednesday night.
Rienzo, who made his debut on July 30, posted his fourth straight no...

Soccer fans wasted no time applying for World Cup tickets on Wednesday. Within seven hours after sales began, FIFA announced that 1 million requests were received.
A random drawing in October will determine who gets the first wave of coveted tickets...